GENERA AND 
Mesembrianthemum, 
Leaves sharply triangular, flowers about 2 in. 
diameter, yellow or pink 
Leaves almost cylindrical, bluntly angular 5 
flower about 1 in. diameter, pink me 
Tetragonia. 
Prostrate, herbaceous; flowers bisexual; styles 
3 or more; fruit with hard protuberances; 
leaves deltoid, beset with watery papillae.. 
Climbing, woody; flowers unisexual, styles 2, 
fruit succulent red, calyx-lobes yellow inside; 
leaves lanceolate to ovate-rhomboid... 
Gunnia. 
Diffuse annual with opposite linear leaves 
Aizoon. 
Small rigid shrub, leaves opposite narrow-linear ; 
calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, whitish inside 
Annual, leaves lanceolate-ovate, calyx-lobes pro- 
found, lanceolate-oblong, yellow inside 
Trianthema. 
1. Leaves solitary, stalked. 
Subshrubby, glabrous; leaves mm gk stamens 10; 
capsule ovoid 
11. Flowers mee PETS Seis 
Stem prostrate, wiry; glabrous or slightly pubes- 
cent, covered with transparent vesicles; 
stamens 5; capsule short, broad : 
Procumbent, hairy; stamens 20; capsule beaked 
Minute, glabrous; leaves imbricate; capsule 
globose ds : 
Zaleya. 
Procumbent, glabrous annual, leaves broadly 
obovate on long stalks; flowers clustered 
axillary, stamens 10-12 
Mollugo. 
I. Stamens and staminodia; seeds with a 
filiform appendage. 
Fertile stamens about 15; flowers large. 
Flowers in axillary clusters ; ; usually diffuse 
coarse plant, starry downy 
SPECIES. 
87 
aequilaterale 
australe 
expansa 
implexicoma 
septifraga 
quadrifidum 
zygophylloides 
turgidifolia 
erystallinia 
pilosa 
humillima 
decandra 
hirta 
